Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside and this week's weekly nursery tour today we're going
to do a little bit of a different nursery tour we are obviously out here in the production area of
the nursery it's a gorgeous sunny day here in North Carolina approaching the very
end of August it is just crazy September is just right around the corner mums here we have
our crop of mums for this year and they have done gorgeous they are just stunning for this year
and they're not even really finished growing yet so for those of you that don't know so creekside
nursery is a grower retailer so we grow the vast majority of our plants that we sell at the nursery
hence why we have our mums going for those of you that don't know mums actually like to grow
in the heat of the summer we planted these it was really kind of around mid-june we think of
like father's day that's the typical time that we plant our mums these are all in 10 inch containers
and they have two two mums per pot we do have a couple of
big beauties back here in the far corner if you can tell maybe they're a little bit taller we
ran out of our 10 inch pots and so jerry had some three gallon containers so he used those and put
three plugs in there per pot now when we grow mums when we grow anything around here at creekside
we like to grow them big and i'm going to pick this one up this year we did something different
with our irrigation system in the past we have run drip tape through them this year we used
the same emitters that we use for hanging baskets this way if i just want to pull one mum out i can
when it was the drip tape we would have to pull the whole tape out and use take out the whole row
but look at this beautiful look how big that is and they are putting on lots of beautiful
buds jerry has you'll notice that they're kind of maybe a little limpy a little a little thirsty
he does that because he wants to put the plant under some stress when mums are under stress
they will start to put out their buds if you continue to to fertilize heavy fertilizer on them
they will shoot out new growth that will go above these buds so that's how he controls when the mums
will bloom he give or take he's back there in the camera shaking his head back and forth i just give
you the very basic layman's terms on this but we have had in the past where they have gone
to bud like way too early like into july you know because they were under stress so what happens is
he'll just suck the fertilizer to him we can fertilize through this system so he will
shoot the fertilizer to them they'll pop out new growth and then they're fine so he will turn on
the irrigation system later on so that way they can get the water they need but you can just
you can like look down that row like everybody's just what i call kissing one another which is
perfect because they're not going to hurt each other as far as like be misshapen but they have
lots of room to grow and be huge we do basically all the colors there's yellows and oranges pinkies
reds whites all the different ones and mums bloom at different times so we'll have early bloomer
mid bloomer late bloomer once they start to put on some color and they crack some color then we
will take them down to the nursery and have them available for sale but we thought it would be
really fun just to kind of come through here give you an update on how these great mums are doing
we do treat i personally treat mums as annuals these are all belgian mums so if you get them
from us quickly and get them in the ground and give their roots time to get established they
will be perennials not all moms are perennials belgian mums will be a perennial for us so if
you want to have your mom come back year to year make sure it's a belgian mum and make sure you get
it in the ground in time for the roots to get established before the cold of the winter hits
so update on mums and now we are going to take a little detour over my right shoulder and we're
going to go check on the sunflowers that jerry planted a couple weeks ago
in what was to be the pumpkin patch they are doing great okay so here we are at the sunflower patch
if you will remember it's about a bit been about a year ago that jerry and i went to go visit lauren
aaron garden answer when we were there she was actually picking pumpkins the day we got there and
i was so inspired by all of her gorgeous pumpkins and i had that fall fever and i was like i'm gonna
plant pumpkins came home ordered a ton of pumpkin seeds and we knew that this is where we were gonna
put the pumpkin patch well y'all know life happens right life happens for us life happens for you
and the best laid plans just kind of go so that's what happened because i knew with the pumpkins
that i didn't want to plant the seeds until we had irrigation on this spot crazy spring right with
the nursery and everything and jerry was having to install irrigation all the way from the production
houses all the way down here long story short it didn't happen so what we said was let's plant some
sunflowers this year because sunflowers are so easy they are just the easiest flower ever on the
planet i think and we have long time experience growing sunflowers perfect fall plant right so
we planted jerry planted um i don't know this is the first batch and so he's going to come back
and plant in the next couple of days another batch next door so that way we have kind of a succession
you know supply of sunflowers we plan on cutting these and having these available at the nursery
for sale so folks can come and buy cut flowers of sunflowers they are all in those autumnal colors
they are the all of them are from the pro cut series we get them from johnny select seeds in
maine love that company they have a wonderful germination rate but the pro cut series of
sunflowers are meant to be cut flowers so it is a single stem so that means for one seed you get
one flower and they are pollenless well what does it mean if they're pollenless it means it doesn't
make a mess on your kitchen table or your you know your your end table with all the pollen that falls
i had just cut some cosmos the other day and i looked down i was like oh my gosh what is what
is all over my table and it was the yellow pollen the pro cut series will not do that so they're
very neat plants gorgeous colors they are all here each row is a different color they are staggered
we're not really concerned about which row is which color because when they start to bloom
we'll know but it's really fun and it is it's just if you have kids and you want to like introduce
them to like seeds and what seeds do like a seed you know you plant it and you get a plant out of
it i always recommend sunflowers if you've got a sunny location then sunflowers are so easy they
germinate well the bugs don't like them this is not on irrigation we never got the irrigation
all the way down here it's about oh i don't know 100 yards from me so once we plant the pumpkins
or get ready for the pumpkins next year we will have water down here so it's not on irrigation
everything that you see has been from rain you can see if there's some little bare patches it
could just be that either the birds got them or when we did get some rain that they washed out
but update on the sunflowers of course we will keep you updated on this but another thing about
sunflowers is they germinate fast and they grow fast so this will be perfect all the way through
gosh october and we'll have lots of fun sunflowers we've got one more thing that we want to show you
we have some perennials actually inside the greenhouse growing why would we put
perennials in the greenhouse in august where it's so hot well come on and i'll tell you why
so here we are in production number two and we have a good little selection of perennials growing
in this greenhouse now for those of you that don't know greenhouses in august are really hot uh but
this one is not so bad because of course this is the new one right and we have the roll-up sides
the doors are open so the ventilation in here is really good it's not unbearable in here the
reason that we are growing tons of echinacea all of our echinacea in this greenhouse right now is
because we do live in north carolina and we have lots of afternoon thunderstorms here currently
afternoon night early morning all the time and then our humidity level is just out the roof
echinacea like to be dry they do not like to have soggy wet roots all the time
we did have it out on the production field and we noticed that they were on the struggle bus big
time they were not happy because they were getting too much water and the humidity was too high we
cannot control the rain so what we did is brought them into the production house where they can grow
and man they are absolutely flourishing this is that sombrero lemon improved lemon yellow improved
what i planted in the backyard beds so they're putting out new growth the foliage looks really
nice something's been chewing on it it's fine but it doesn't have powdery mildew they are very happy
and growing so they have responded really well here this way when they're under the greenhouse
we can control the water the only way they're going to get water is by what we give them so
overall i mean they have done really well you can see on this one this was the salsa red
so this is what was happening you had all the foliage that was dying it was rotting
so we pulled it in time and then this is the new growth that's starting to flush out
clearly this one was about we were about to lose it but it's coming back and it's okay so it'll
just hang out and be just fine then over here we've got some of the magnus purple coneflower
that is doing really well magnus is just one of those i mean classic classic varieties that
traditional purple clone flower that we all know and love very much like it dry and hot so i mean
the foliage on this is just beautiful absolutely gorgeous don't be surprised if you see this
in the landscape really soon in jenny's yard and then we also have the perennial sedums
they are growing back here this is tiramisu and so they are going nice and happy everybody can be dry
you can see some of the ones in the front that were that were way too wet
we'll see how they come back they may or may not but at least we were able to get them out
or it just may take some time for them to come back and then the day lilies they would be fine
outside that somehow they just got stuck in here um on accident but that is a little update here at
the production area between the mums and the sunflowers and all the things growing uh we
would love to for you to come and see us our new fall hours are still wednesday through saturday
we're just changing our time just a little bit from nine to two so come see us wednesday through
saturday nine to two and that will be um from here until we close we will close this saturday before
thanksgiving we will close for the season and then reopen sometime in february so as always so thank
you so much for joining us creekside y'all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends